Peer Led Initiatives
Hearing Voices Network – USA – It is part of an international collaboration between professionals, people with lived experience, and their families to develop an alternative approach to coping with emotional distress that is empowering and useful to people, and does not start from the assumption that they have a chronic illness.
The Voice Collective – Offers an online support forum for children and young people who hear voices, see visions, have other ‘unusual’ sensory experiences or beliefs. They also offer support for parents/families, and training for youth workers, social workers, mental health professionals and other supporters.
Inner Compass Initiative – The resources on the ICI and The Withdrawal Project websites include a detailed layperson’s “Companion Guide” to safer tapering from psychiatric medications; mini-booklets that provide detailed, critical information about psychiatric drugs, psychiatric diagnoses, and the mental health industry; and two networking platforms to help people who are thinking critically about the mental health system or seeking support for psychiatric drug withdrawal to find each other in their local communities.
The Dissociative Initiative – For, by, and about people with multiplicity, dissociation, and amnesia
The Icarus Project – The Icarus Project is a support network and education project by and for people who experience the world in ways that are often diagnosed as mental illness.
Beyond Meds – This site documents and shares many natural methods of self-care for finding and sustaining health in body, mind and spirit. This blog also deals with wider issues in the socio/political and spiritual realms as they pertain to mental health and human rights issues surrounding psychiatry.
National Mental Health Consumers’ Self-Help Clearinghouse – Here you’ll find the latest information on mental health and consumer/survivor issues. We include updates on important issues, linking you to news sources, funding opportunities and the most recent developments in the consumer/survivor movement.
Videos
MACKLEMORE & RYAN LEWIS- Kevin
Dear Doctor – MC FÜBB
The Power of Vulnerability – Brené Brown
Hearing Voices : an Insiders Guide to Auditory Hallucinations – Debra Lampshire | TEDxTauranga
Is clinical psychology fearful of social context? – Professor Mary Boyle
Leah Harris on suicide and moving beyond psychiatric labels
On the Murphy Bill AKA “mental health reform”
Colin A. Ross, MD on what’s wrong with psychiatry and mental health
Compassion for voices: A tale of courage and hope
Eleanor Longden: The voices in my head – TED talk
Interview with Peter Gøtzsche on the topic of his recently-released book “Deadly Medicines and Organized Crime: How Big Pharma has Corrupted Healthcare”
Take These Broken Wings and other videos by Daniel Mackler
Books
Living with Voices: 50 Stories of Recovery edited by Marius Romme, Sandra Escher, & Jacque Dillion
Models of Madness edited by John Read, Loren Mosher, & Richard Bentall
The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk
Psychosis, Trauma, and Dissociation edited by Andrew Moskowitz, Ingo Schafer, & Martin Justin Dorahy
Experiencing Psychosis edited by Jim Geekie, Patte Randal, Debra Lampshire, & John Read
The Divided Self: An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness by R. D. Laing
Blind to Betrayal by Jennifer Freyd
A Fight to Be by Ron Bassman
The Trouble with Twin Studies by Jay Joseph
Why Everyone (Else) is a Hypocrite by Robert Kurzban
Rethinking Madness by Paris Williams
Mad in America by Robert Whitaker
Alternatives Beyond Psychiatry edited by Peter Stastny & Peter Lehmann
Pseudoscience in Biological Psychiatry by Colin Ross & Alvin Pamm
